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NOEL DSOUZA · M.ENG. AEROSPACE · PMP · CAMS

Keeping people safe —
on-chain and off it.

Former aerospace engineer who has spent the last six years protecting users in crypto. Currently Sr. Manager of Compliance at OpenSea, where I build AI-driven compliance automation. On nights and weekends, I'm building RemissionRoute.

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PMP  ·  CAMS  ·  TRM Advanced Crypto Investigator  ·  TRM Crypto Compliance Specialist

now building — RemissionRoute

actively building

Frontier AI for everyday health questions. With an estimated 5.9–6.5 million Canadians without a regular family doctor, RemissionRoute is a gated research prototype that answers everyday health questions, organizes every response for clinician review, and keeps the source of each answer fully visible.

remissionroute.com →

// work

OpenSea — Sr. Manager, Compliance

feb 2022 → present · remote
  • Employee #3 on OpenSea's compliance team; grew through four roles into team lead.
  • Built AI-driven compliance automation: risk scoring user profiles by fusing Amplitude, Honeypot, TRM blockchain intelligence and ReTool enforcement tooling.
  • Orchestrated AI agents for investigations — from ban-appeal triage to multi-wallet banning via TRM graph fan-outs, with human escalation.
  • Automated OFAC sanctions screening with Claude Code, monitoring SDN list updates against counterparties.
  • Owned high-risk alert screening across 50+ subcategories (sanctions, CSAM, scams, protocol exploits) and supported 100+ law-enforcement requests.

Dharma Labs — Operations Manager

nov 2020 → feb 2022 · remote
  • Employee #9 and sole support-team member for the first 11 months.
  • Ran onboarding, helpdesk and account recoveries via 2/3 multisig, plus KYC/AML collection for ongoing compliance needs.
  • Turned user feedback into product improvements with the product team.

Bombardier Aerospace — Sales Engineer

aug 2019 → apr 2020 · montreal
  • Translated customer technical requirements into viable solutions across the business-aircraft lineup.
  • Produced routine performance analyses (RPS) for Challenger 300/650 used in product planning and industrial design.

// research & publications

Selected work from graduate studies at Concordia University and before.

concordia · 2018

3D optical sensors applied to retail clothing

From body measurement to apparel delivery — my first dive into ML and SLAM.

 concordia · 2019

Droplet lens actuation using electro-rheological fluid

Micro-optics modeled and analyzed in COMSOL.

 concordia · 2018

Biomechanical analysis of Challenger 300 landing-gear maintenance

REBA/RULA ergonomics modeled in CATIA V5.

 bombardier insider · 2020

HEPA filtration against COVID-19 for in-cabin air circulation

Featured in Bombardier's worldwide Sales Insider publication.

 concordia · 2019

Redesign of the LP BOV system on the SGT-A65 gas turbine

Three electromechanical alternatives under a 30% cost-reduction constraint.

 concordia · 2018 · co-authored

Lid-driven cavity flow & flow past a cylinder (Re 100–10,000)

Unsteady incompressible Navier–Stokes solved in ANSYS Fluent.
full list on academia.edu →

// education

M.Eng. — Aerospace Engineering

Concordia University, Montreal · 2017 – 2019

B.Sc. — Aircraft Maintenance Engineering

Hindustan Aviation Academy, Bangalore · 2012 – 2015